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Ir’s easier to tolerate dry climate with temperature +38C having 4 seasons than humid climate with temperature +32C+33C with 2 seasons. Winters are cool in temperate climate. Snow falls in mountains in ACT. Perfect weather is in springs and autumns.
Often we stop in Singapore when we fly in Europe. Singapore is right on equator. I’d never be able to live in tropical climate.

Leaving aside, of course, the fact that the Indians in America (native Americans) were not wiped out and are still very much “here”. Most of the “Indian Wars” were actually quite modest, small affairs. I suspect that the vast majority of Native American deaths in the 17th, 18th and possibly the 19th centuries were caused by diseases brought to the colonies by European settlers.

Many Americans - my wife among them - have some Amerindian blood in their veins but do not choose to live on reservations out west because they don’t want to. We had an across the street neighbor in Houston whose wife was majority Cherokee (she was from Oklahoma) but unless she told you, you’d never know it. The movies made by John Ford (sp?) showing US Cavalry outposts in the far west were probably quite accurate in the sense that they were small affairs.

The colonists and later Americans treated the native tribes poorly - actually much worse centuries ago than today. There are not too many instances in recent history where a first world culture collided directly with a third world culture. At the time the European conquest, the Amerindians were basically a Stone Age culture of hunter-gatherers with a few exceptions (such as the Hopi and Navajo). When they got rifles, knives and horses, things changed dramatically.

Leaving aside, of course, the fact that the Indians in America (native Americans) were not wiped out and are still very much “here”. Most of the “Indian Wars” were actually quite modest, small affairs. I suspect that the vast majority of Native American deaths in the 17th, 18th and possibly the 19th centuries were caused by diseases brought to the colonies by European settlers.

Many Americans - my wife among them - have some Amerindian blood in their veins but do not choose to live on reservations out west because they don’t want to. We had an across the street neighbor in Houston whose wife was majority Cherokee (she was from Oklahoma) but unless she told you, you’d never know it. The movies made by John Ford (sp?) showing US Cavalry outposts in the far west were probably quite accurate in the sense that they were small affairs.

The colonists and later Americans treated the native tribes poorly - actually much worse centuries ago than today. There are not too many instances in recent history where a first world culture collided directly with a third world culture - Australia is another. At the time the European conquest, the Amerindians were basically a Stone Age culture of hunter-gatherers with a few exceptions (such as the Hopi and Navajo). When they got rifles, knives and horses, things changed dramatically.

Dry, hot summers doesn't mean humid. Very few people living in tropical climate in northern Australia. Likely under 450,000. In Cairns, Darwin, Broome and rural areas. The middle of Australia is empty. Most people living (around 80%) in southern part of the continent where there're four seasons. In Victoria, NSW, SA, WA, Tasmania, ACT, where at most two weeks in a year of hot days (+35C and more) .

They would still miss their cold climate. Beside, Himalayan mountain, many places in North-East India and many places in Burma were quite suitable for British. Some Hill stations like Darjeeling and Shimla were developed mainly to help British escape acute Indian summer. They didn't try even to colonize the mountain areas of India.

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